5 Tips For

A little earlier in the year my teacher, Mr. Sanderl, gave all GT students a project where we had to think of 5 tips for a topic, the topic had to be useful. To me the video project was really exciting and I learned a lot of things about Final Cut Pro. The project was a very helpful experience where I can use what I learned in this project in some other project that Mr. Sanderl assigns his GT classes.

My team, Keegan and Lilio, including me chose the topic "5 Tips for Playing Volleyball." We chose this topic because we all thought that this could help some people if they wanted to improve or learn how to play volleyball better than how they played before. All of thought that this would be a pretty decent video if we all worked together and focused on finishing our project.

We faced a lot of difficulties during the project. One difficulty we had was that our video was below the time limit, so my team and I had to slow things down and doing that made our video look really funky. Another difficulty was that we didn't have Lilio because she had a doctors appointment so only Keegan and me worked on the project. Keegan and I panicked a little because we were missing a team member but we just followed through and worked our hardest.

Composition Techniques

There are many different shots of composition techniques. Some composition techniques make the shot a little more intriguing and creative.

The "Main Four" Composition Techniques

Rule of Thirds- The object is slightly moved to the side of the center. If the object is a person make sure the eyes appear at the inner corner.

Framing- When you use different objects to make a frame around something else.

Unusual Angles- Angles that are different and more creative than a simple regular shot of a really boring angle that has no interesting shots.

Leading Lines- Are lines within an image that leads the eye to another point in the image, or out of the image.

These four composition techniques are important because they give the viewer a better explanation of the video. These techniques make the visual story more interesting by turning the video from good to great. If you have experienced seeing an awesome commercial or t.v show. They use composition techniques to make their advertisements have a little more interest in them. These are once again the MAIN composition techniques, Rule of Thirds, Framing, Unusual Angles, and Leading Lines.

Practice Profile Story

My team and I chose Kasiah Vercelli to be in our practice story project.. We had a purpose for our story and here it is, my team and I wanted to give the audience a really interesting inside look of gymnastics. We wanted the viewers to feel the connection Kasiah had with her hobby.

We chose Kasiah Vercelli because we all knew how passionate and interested in gymnastics so we thought that why not do our project on somebody who really dedicates her time to do the thing that she loves we all decided that we should do hers because it was so interesting.

Profile Project Progress

My team and I decided to choose Kasiah's mom to be our " Elder Words of Wisdom" for this project in GT. She helped the people in a third world country while they were going through some difficult times. She taught them different things like how to grow their own crops. We chose her because we think that she is so inspiring and we wanted other people to see the real Katie Vercelli. We interviewed Mrs. Vercelli at her house which had very good lighting so it made our shots very focused.

When my team recorded the b-roll we had to make sure that there was no camera movement and that the things we shot b-roll on were related to the subject of our interviewee. The camera lens had to be very neat and clean so that we could see the objects well. We also recorded voice overs which was a little difficult because it had to be very fluent and we had to shoot it before lunch so we were kind of starving.

My team and I had some disagreements and difficulties during the process of filming our interview. When we were shooting, two of my teammates were arguing about who was going to say action. I got kind of irritated by them because they were arguing about something retarded. I was so glad Mrs Vercelli stepped in and helped them solve their problem. We can work on communicating with each other and work together better our teamwork needs to improve.

I'm pretty sure that my team and I will improve our story by working together to make some minor and major adjustments. We need to cut out the music from under the transition; our story is a little too long so we have to make the story shorter by like 1 1/2 minutes so that we are not disqualified. We are going to do this by being very focused and concentrating on finishing our work.

Three Shot Sequences

Sequencing is a series of three shots that are short. Sequencing is usually used in videos and make it a little more interesting. If taking great sequencing shots than you are using different angles to get a different perspective. When using sequencing try to get a little more creative than just one simple angle or one part of something. For example, when using sequencing on two people arguing try to get a wide shot of the the setting. Then, get a nice medium shot of the person's head talking to the other person. Finally get a good solid shot of the lips moving. Sequencing is a very important thing to learn in visual story telling or anything that occurs sequncing because it will help you get a really nice and interesting video.

Polar Panoramas

 Here are two of my finished polar panoramas. I first looked up the site about the process of creating a polar panorama before I decide where I would like my polar panorama to be. Then captured 10-15 interesting photos that also have to have a 10-15% of overlapping to the very next photo. After making the photos more bright and beautiful in Adobe Bridge I opened them in Photoshop. Using the PhotoMerge tool in Photoshop it automatically developed my Panorama.

First, I warped the panorama and made fit comfortably in the shape of a square and then cropped it. I rotated the square exactly 180 degrees and added the filter, Polar Coordinates. I finally had my own little world that I had just created; all I needed to do was edit the Polar Panorama. To make this perfect I erased most of the seam by applying the stamp and blur tool. I finally added my portrait photo to the Polar Panorama.

Practice Story Reflection

My team and I are currently working on a project in  GT. This project is a video project, it contains us to make an interview on someone in our group and share about a specific topic related to them. This project results us having to take footage of our interviewee which is our teammate Kasiah doing her topic. We had to tape the interview, record b-roll footage of her doing the topic, sequencing, and putting it all in Final Cut Pro to make it look very professional.

On the way to success we ran into a couple of problems. One problem was that the kids that were in the back were just constantly talking and would not be quiet so that was a real downer. Another challenge we had was the lighting, because we were out in the field and the sun was to bright so it was in kasiah's face and she couldn't see where she was going. Our final problem was the b-roll we didn't get enough b-roll for the interview so it looked like a real boring interview.

I think that my team could have worked a little harder on certain areas on the interview project and we could have communicated better with each other better. The team did a pretty good job and I think we can accomplish more things if we just stick our heads to the job.